August 30th, 2018 Meeting Minutes
Notes taken by backbutton in vim
19 people in attendance, including: cookie, spacedog, skuld, shiranui, tank, drewr, hellbacon, tayarndt, presto, tyrna, karhl, tali, zurek, kami, caligula, smitty, bison, sphinx,
6:00 PM, On a Thursday, 2225 Kohrman Hall
introductions
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spacedog is the new vp since dolphin couldnt attend this year
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welcome to new people
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we said thanks to everyone that helped with bronco bash, passport day, and room cleanup
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we got a new standup and hanging banners(one each)
PLAN
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Is a local area network gaming party held at parkview(with prizes for tournament winners)
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We need to decide on a date
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We could use people to help setup or prepare for it on friday between 3 and 4
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We could talk to esports club about coming to plan.
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We should continue overwatch
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We are open to talking about new games
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We could possibly use Rainbow Six Siege as a game
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We talked about doing a battle royale game
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We will talk about doing fighting games
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There is also a channel on riot to talk about plan
Appointed Positions
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This includes system admin, web master, vp of ops, and monitors.
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We are open on officers to those who are interested in this position.
Riot Accounts
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All accounts that were active within five years have been renewed for 35 days
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Annual dues are $10
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Trial memberships are available for a 30 day period
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The url to riot is this
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If you want to set up a trial account, see HellBacon or another officer
Computing machines on loan
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We can loan out some machines especially for CS 2230 and 3240
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We are still figuring out colateral for loaning
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Any ideas are welcome on the officers chat in riot
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We have hardware to use if one has a project in mind, just let us know
Spreading the word
- If you can, please talk to cs classes about cclub
Scheduled Lectures
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We have a schedule for talks on various subjects related to computers here
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Kahrl is giving a talk on atom as a c IDE
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We have hardware to use if one has a project in mind, just let us know
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Skuld is doing a windows 10 optimization talk, possibly open gl development
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Sphinx brought up the custer lecture series, for people to fly out here to talk
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Contact Carey.schoolmaster@wmich.edu for this lecture series
CTF
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CTF(capture the flag) is a one credit class for security competition programming on fridays from 2:00 to 2:50 at room 2217 kohrman hall, counts as cs elective if taken three times
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talk to someone about hanging a projector from the ceiling
Upcoming external events
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Spartahacks is a hackathon Jan 19th through the 21st
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MHacks on Oct 12th through the 14th both of these are very helpful i.e. microcontrollers and programming let us know via officers chat or by pming cookie
Amenities for members
- Our amenities include a paid snack bar, a 3d printer, a vr station, a library of technical books, multiple servers and a networking lab, an arcade machine, an electronics workbench, various gaming systems, lots of hardware pieces, chat services help with homework with people
Weekly Dinner
- We had dinner at roadhouse around 7:00